208Mil BC-142Mil BC The reptile called a
Thalattosuchian roamed a tropical environment in Asia about this
time. The amphibious creature represents an early milestone in
evolutionary history, marking a transition during which these
reptiles moved from being semi-aquatic to wholly ocean species.
Scientists In 2007 uncovered the remains of the six- to
eight-foot-long reptile in Jurassic rock on private property in the
Snowshoe Formation of the Izee Terrane, a rock formation in Oregon.
The rock-entombed animal migrated eastward via continental drift.
(www.livescience.com/animalworld/070321_jurassic_croc.html)

40,000BC-12,000BC A great river of ice formed in
Oregon’s Wallowa Valley. The moraines around Wallowa Lake remained
after the glacier melted.
(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.G4)

15000BC-13000BC During the last Ice Age dams of
glacial meltwater repeatedly failed and eroded land in southeastern
Washington state and Oregon. This exposed petrified logs in what
later became Gingko Petrified Forest State Park. An ice dam, which
blocked the Clark Fork River in Montana and created lake Missoula,
broke at least 40 times and caused cataclysmic floods. One Missoula
flood left Portland under 400 feet of water.
(CW, Fall ‘03, p.20)(SSFC, 9/12/04, p.D9)

12300BC In 2008 scientists reported that
fossilized human feces found in 8 caves near Paisley, Ore., dated to
about this time. The coprolites contained DNA with characteristics
matching those of living Amerindians.
(SFC, 4/4/08, p.A4)(Econ, 4/5/08, p.84)

5000BC Mt. Mazama in what is now Oregon blew up
about this time and left what is now called Crater Lake.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, Z1 p.7)(SFC, 10/26/06, p.B8)

1806 Mar 23, Explorers Lewis
and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, left Fort Clatsop,
Oregon, and began their journey back East.
(ON, 4/12,
p.12)(http://lewisandclarktrail.com/section2/ndcities/timeline1805.htm)

1819 Feb 22, Spain signed the
Adams-Onis Treaty with the United States ceding eastern Florida.
Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John
Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty, in which Spain
agrees to cede the remainder of its old province of Florida. Spain
renounced claims to Oregon Country. [see 1821]
(AP, 2/22/99)(HN, 2/22/99)

1836 Sep 1, Protestant
missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman led a party to Oregon. His wife,
Narcissa, was one of the first white women to travel the Oregon
Trail.
(HN, 9/1/99)

1841-1869 Approximately 400,000 settlers crossed
the American West on the Oregon Trail during this period. The influx
of settlers began after legendary mountainmen Thomas Fitzpatrick and
Joe Meek guided a small band of settlers out of Independence,
Missouri, in 1841, heading west toward the Oregon Territory, 2,000
miles distant. The route they used, pieced together from Indian and
trapper paths, would become known as the Oregon Trail. By the time
the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, some 400,000
settlers had traveled west on the Oregon Trail.
(HNQ, 4/18/99)

1843 May 22, The 1st wagon
train with over 1000 people departed Independence, Missouri for
Oregon. Known as the "Great Emigration," the expedition came two
years after the first modest party of settlers made the long,
overland journey to Oregon.
(MC, 5/22/02)

1845 Emigrants, led by trapper
Stephen Meek, took a disastrous shortcut from the Oregon Trail.
Stephen H. L. Meek, trapper, mountain man and younger brother of
famed Oregon pioneer Joseph Meek, led a group heading out to the
Oregon Territory. However, by the time they reached Fort Laramie,
Meek was told his services were no longer needed. He rode on ahead,
speaking to the groups he found along the way, telling of a new
route to the settlements in the Willamette Valley. It was shorter,
he told them, and easier. For five dollars per wagon, he would guide
them. By the time he reached Fort Boise on the Snake River, he’d
managed to persuade around 200 families to take his cutoff. In 1967
Keith Clark and Lowell Tiller authored: “Terrible Trail: The Meek
Cutoff, 1845" (Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1967).
(HNQ, 5/20/01)

1846 Jun 15, The United States
and Britain signed a treaty settling a boundary dispute between
Canada and the United States in the Pacific Northwest at the 49th
parallel. Great Britain and the U.S. agreed on a joint occupation of
Oregon Territory. President Polk agreed to a compromise border along
the 49th parallel. The debate over the northwestern border of the
United States. The campaign slogan "54-40 or fight" referred to the
debate over the northwestern border of the United States. The slogan
"54-40 or fight" refers to the north latitude degree and minute
where many Americans wanted to place the border between the U.S. and
then Great Britain in the Pacific Northwest.
(AP, 6/15/97)(HN, 6/15/98)(SFC, 1/25/99,
p.A3)(HNQ, 3/28/00)

1846 The Applegate Trail across
northwest Nevada and northeast California was blazed as a southern
approach to Oregon's Willamette Valley.
(SFEC, 1/23/00, p.T7)

1848 Aug 14, The Oregon
Territory was established.
(AP, 8/14/97)

1848 One third of the 10,000
Americans in Oregon left by the fall to find gold in California.
This included Peter Burnett who became the first governor of Ca.
(1849-1851).
(SFEC, 6/21/98, Z1 p.4)

1850 Jul 25, Gold was
discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon, extending the quest for
gold up the Pacific coast.
(HN, 7/25/98)

1853 Mar 2, The Territory of
Washington was organized after separating from Oregon Territory.
Pres. Franklin Pierce appointed Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) as
the first governor of the Washington Territory. Stevens served as US
Congressman from the territory (1857-1858), and as a major general
in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He died at the
Battle of Chantilly.
(HN, 3/2/99)(SC,
3/2/02)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Stevens)

1853 William Waldo, a Whig
candidate for governor of Ca., lost the election and moved to
Oregon. He was a major property owner in southern Marin Ct. and his
name stuck to the steep hill and later the tunnel just north of the
GG Bridge.
(SFC, 1/26/98, p.A11)

1855 Some 400 pioneers arrived
via the Oregon Trail and established the first Christian communal
society west of the Mississippi at Aurora.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, p.T6)

1855 Nez Perce elders agreed to
sell most of their land to the US government. They retained some 10
thousand square miles as a reservation in the area where Washington,
Oregon and Idaho meet. Gold was soon discovered in the area and in
1863 the US government called for a new deal.
(ON, 3/04, p.1)

1857 Sep 3, John McLoughlin
(b.1784), Hudson's Bay Co. pioneer at Fort Vancouver and in Oregon
Country, died in Oregon City. In the late 1840s his general store in
Oregon City was famous as the last stop on the Oregon Trail.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McLoughlin)

1863 The US government paid a
group of Nez Perce Indians $265,000 for some 6 million acres in the
area of Lewiston, Oregon.
(ON, 3/04, p.1)

1864 The Multnomah County
Library was launched with $250 donations from 101 citizens.
(WSJ, 6/16/97, p.10)

1865-1890 Wars against the native American Indians
were fought during this period in the Pacific Northwest. In 2003
Peter Cozzens edited: “Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890:
The Wars for the Pacific Northwest."
(AH, 6/03, p.62)

1867 Apr, George N. Jaquith was
killed during an expedition against the Bannock Indians in the Steen
Mountains.
(SFC, 8/27/98, p.A9)

1867 Carlton Watkins took
pictures along the Columbia River that included one of Cape Horn.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, DB p.33)

1872 Aug 14, Chief Joseph met
in council with some 40 settlers in the Wallowa Valley and ordered
them to leave the Indian land.
(ON, 3/04, p.2)

1872 Peter French (23) rode
from Ca. with 1,200 head of shorthorn cattle for Dr. Hugh Glenn and
settled in what is now called Frenchglen.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T5)

1873 Jun 16, Pres. Grant signed
an executive order that permitted Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce to
live in the Wallowa Valley, Oregon, to perpetuity.
(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par. p.5)(ON, 3/04, p.2)

1873 Oct 3, Captain Jack and
three other Modoc Indians were hanged in Oregon for the murder of
General Edward Canby.
(HN, 10/3/98)

1874 The clipper ship Western
Shore was built at Coos Bay for the Simpson Brothers Lumber Co. of
San Francisco. In 1878 it ran aground on Duxbury Reef near Bolinas,
Ca.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.B2)

1874 Elijah Davidson discovered
a marble cavern in the Siskiyou Mountains that later became a
national monument.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.17)

1875 Seth Lewelling of
Milwaukie, Oregon, grew the 1st Bing cherry from the seed of a
Republican cherry. He named it Bing after a Chinese worker on his
farm.
(SFC, 4/12/03, p.E3)

1876 Henry Theophilus Fink
(b.1854) was the first Oregon student to graduate from Harvard. The
whole town of Aurora helped him with expenses. Fink became well
known as a musical writer and critic.
(SFEC, 10/18/98,
p.T7)(www.tribalsmile.com/music/article_169.shtml)

1877 Jun 15, The US Army under
Gen’l. Oliver Otis Howard began to pursue some 800 Nez Perce. The
Nez Perce had been ordered to leave the Valley of the Winding Waters
(Wallowa Valley) in Oregon.
(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)(SFEC, 6/15/97, Par
p.1)(SSFC, 7/9/06, p.G4)

1877 Jun 16, The Nez Perce War
began in the northwestern US. The First Squadron of the First
Regiment, the oldest cavalry unit in the US, fought the Apaches and
the Nez Perces.
(WUD, 1994, p.964)(WSJ, 12/27/95, p. A-1)(ON,
3/04, p.5)

1877 Oct 5, Nez Perce Chief
Joseph and 418 survivors were captured in the Bear Paw mountains and
forced into reservations in Kansas. They surrendered in Montana
Territory, after a 1,700-mile trek to reach Canada fell 40 miles
short. Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrendered to General O.O. Howard and
Colonel Nelson Miles at the Bear Paw ravine in Montana Territory,
saying, "Hear me, my chiefs, my heart is sick and sad. From where
the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever." The retreat had
lasted three months and left 120 Nez Perces dead. Miles had found
and surrounded the Nez Perce camp with the help of Sioux and
Cheyenne scouts. Many whites, including Howard, admired the Nez
Perces' fighting ability and Chief Joseph himself, who was
considered humane and eloquent. He died in 1904.
(HFA, '96, p.40)(SFC, 6/13/97, p.A13)(HNPD,
10/5/98)(HN, 10/5/98)

1881 Dutch Henry, a miner in
Oregon’s Rogue River area, went on trial for the murder of a
suspiciously large number of fellow miners in “self defense," but
was not convicted.
(SSFC, 3/18/07, p.G4)

1883 The Oregon State Hospital
was built in Salem. It was used for the 1975 film “One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest." In 2004 legislators discovered the cremated remains
of some 3,600 mental patients in corroding copper canisters. In 2008
the main building was scheduled to be torn down and replaced by a
new complex.
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.A8)(www.oregon.gov/DHS/mentalhealth/osh/main.shtml)

1885 Capt. George Flavel built
his Victorian home at 8th and Duane streets in Astoria, Ore. It was
later turned into a museum.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)

1887 Charles Lux died. His
firm, Miller and Lux, by this time owned some 700,000 head of cattle
in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Over 700 miles of private telegraph
lines connected their ranches.
(SSF, 1976, p.2)

1891 The Multnomah Athletic
Club opened in Portland, Oregon.
(WSJ, 5/22/06, p.A1)

1892 The Portland Art Museum
opened.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)

1893 A mercantile store was
built in Aurora later known as the Impressions of Aurora, an antique
dealership.
(SFEC, 10/18/98, p.T6)

1894 Mar, The first football
game was played at the University of Oregon. UO defeated Albany
College (now Lewis and Clark College) by a score of 44-2.
(http://admissions.uoregon.edu/visit/qtvr/autzen/autzens.html)

1896 In Portland the Union
Station, later the Amtrak station, was built.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)

1897 Dec 26, Peter French shot
and killed sodbuster, Ed Oliver, after Oliver drew a gun on him.
French confessed to the murder but was acquitted.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T5)

1900 Frank Doernbecher (d.1921)
founded Doernbecher Manufacturing in Portland, Oregon. The company
was eventually taken over by Barker Furniture.
(SFC, 11/1/06, p.G2)

1901 Feb 28, Linus Pauling,
American chemist, was born in Portland, Oregon. He won the Nobel
Prize for chemistry (1954) and a Nobel Peace Prize (1962) for his
arguments for nuclear disarmament. He also advocated major doses of
vitamin C to maintain health.
(HN,
2/28/99)(http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1962/pauling-bio.html)

1901 At Cape Blanco Patrick
Hughes was killed when his horse stumbled and crushed him. His ranch
fell slowly to ruin and was sold to the state in 1971.
(SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T3)

1906 Oct 25, The Peter Iredale,
a British 278-foot 4-mast bark, wrecked on Clatsop Beach, but the
whole crew survived. The only enemy shell to strike Oregon soil
during WW II landed near the wreck.
(PC, Smith-Western)

1908 Jul 22, Claire Falkenstein
(1908-1997), sculptor and painter, was born to a pioneer family in
Coos Bay, Or. Her father, Louis Frederick Falkenstein, was a timber
executive.
(SFC, 10/24/97, p.A22)

1908 Pres. Theodore Roosevelt
established the Lower Klamath Refuge in northern California and
southern Oregon as the nation’s first preserve set aside for
waterfowl.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Klamath_National_Wildlife_Refuge)(SFC,
4/21/12, p.A10)
1908 Portland held its first
Rose Festival and became known as the Rose City.
(WSJ, 3/2/00, p.A24)

1909 The Oregon Caves in the
Siskiyou Mountains was set aside as one of the first national
monuments.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.17)
1909 California became its own
Jesuit province becoming fully independent from Turin. The Province
boundaries expanded to encompass all of the Pacific Northwest and
Alaska.
(GenIV, Winter
04/05)(www.jesuitscalifornia.org/Page.aspx?pid=272)

1914 Sep, Francis H. Leggett, a
steam cruiser bound for San Francisco, sank in heavy seas off the
Oregon coast. 74 people died and 2 survived.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W4)

1914-1976 The Clatsop County Jail in Astoria,
Oregon, was located at Duane and Ninth.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)

1915 The Wapama steam schooner
was built almost entirely of Douglas fir in St. Helens, Ore. She
carried Northwest lumber down the coast and was sold to Alaska
Transportation Co. in 1937 and used as a refrigerator ship between
Puget Sound and Alaska for 10 years. California rescued and restored
the ship for display in 1963. In 1979 she was put into drydock and
repairs were estimated at 18 million in 2000.
(SFC, 7/24/00, p.A19)

1915 The Kennedy elementary
schools was built in Portland (5736 NE 33rd). It closed in 1975 and
was condemned in 1980. In 1997 Mike and Brian McMenamin opened it as
a hotel.
(SSFC, 6/6/04, D5)

1916 The Frenchglen Hotel was
built for cattle traders and stockmen in southeastern Oregon. It was
named after Peter French.
(SFEC, 7/6/97, p.T5)

1916 The Gallon House, an
84-foot covered bridge, was built to cross the Abiqua Creek near
Silverton.
(SFEC, 1/11/98, p.T3)

1919 Feb 25, Oregon introduced
the first state tax on gasoline at one cent per gallon, to be used
for road construction.
(HN, 2/25/98)(AP, 2/25/98)

1926 Oct 30, Marvin A. Clark of
Tigard, Ore., went missing during a visit to Portland. In 1986
loggers discovered the remains of a man along with some personal
effects that included a revolver and an expended .32 caliber bullet.
Medical examiners ruled the man’s death a suicide and in 2014 DNA
evidence was checked to verify if the man was Clark.
(SFC, 5/1/14, p.A10)

1930 Jun 17, Pres. Hoover
signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, placing the highest tariff on
imports to the U.S. It was sponsored by Willis Hawley, a congressman
from Oregon, and Reed Smoot, a senator from Utah. An international
trade war began with the US passage of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act.
Foreign countries retaliated. Many economists blame Smoot-Hawley for
deepening the depression. It reflected the "Protectionism" of the
times.
(WSJ, 7/1/96, p.A11)(HN, 6/17/98)(WSJ, 1/11/99,
p.R50)(WSJ, 2/3/04, p.A12)

1932 May 29, World War I
veterans began arriving in Washington DC to demand cash bonuses they
weren’t scheduled to receive for another 13 years. 17,000 veterans,
calling themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force, marched on
Washington demanding cash for their bonus certificates. They were
led by Walter Waters, a former sergeant from Portland, Ore.
(TMC, 1994, p.1932)(AP, 5/29/97)(WSJ, 11/7/05,
p.B1)

1933 Aug 14, A wildfire began
in Tillamook, Oregon. It was extinguished on Sep 5 by rain. Some
311,000 acres burned in the wildfire.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)(SFC, 8/10/02,
p.A5)

1934 Jul 29, The West Coast
longshoremen’s strike came to an end on its 82nd day when the dock
workers’ leaders accepted conditions proposed by the National
Longshoremen’s board, pending arbitration. Men returned to work on
July 31.
(SSFC, 7/26/09, DB
p.42)(www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/STRIKES!/exh.html)

1934 The Civilian Conservation
Corp. built the West Shelter at Oregon’s Cape Perpetua.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E8)
1934 The Oregon Caves Chateau
was designed and constructed for $50,000 by Gust Lium, a local
builder.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.39)

1936 In Monroe, Ore., Ralph
Hull began the Hull-Oakes Lumber Co. and used steam power for power
continuously to 1998 when the National Park Service presented the
mill a history of itself, already listed on the National Historic
Register.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.E4)

1937 Sep 28, Pres. Roosevelt
dedicated Timberline Lodge at the foot of Palmer snowfield in Mt.
Hood National Forest. It was constructed with public funds and WPA
workers and did not open until Feb. 1938.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.40)
1937 Sep 28, FDR dedicated
Bonneville Dam on Columbia River in Oregon.
(MC, 9/28/01)

1939 William Gruber and Harold
Graves produced the 1st View-Master in Portland. 2 cameras were used
to create stereo images. They were introduced at the New York
World’s Fair and became an overnight sensation. In 2009 Fisher-Price
eliminated almost all of its View Master titles, except for a
handful of children’s titles.
(SFC, 8/31/00, p.C8)(Econ, 3/14/09, p.34)

1939 A 2nd big Tillamook fire
occurred. It burned 190,000 acres before being extinguished, and was
contained within the bounds of the earlier fire.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)

1941 Oct 2, Gilbert Gable,
mayor of Port Orford, Ore., announced with some pals that they were
fed up of being neglected by legislators in Salem and Sacramento and
began promoting a 51st state named Jefferson with Yreka as the
capital.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.A26)(AH, 2/05, p.20)

1941 Oct, The US Army
established the Umatilla Munitions Depot on 20,000 acres of desert
and sagebrush in Oregon just 6 weeks before the bombing of Pearl
Harbor.
(SFEC, 4/27/97,
p.A18)(www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/facility/umatilla.htm)

1941 Nov 27, Jefferson seceded
from Oregon and California. Jefferson was the winning name for a new
state made of California’s northern Siskiyou, Del Norte and Trinity
counties along with Oregon’s southern Curray County. California’s
Gov. Culbert L. Olson was soon informed that until roads were
repaired, Jefferson would be forced to rebel every Thursday. In 2008
calls for a Jefferson state gained steam and included an additional
5 counties in southern Oregon and 2 more in northern California.
(AH, 2/05, p.21)(SSFC, 10/5/08, p.A11)

1941 Dec 4, In Yreka, Ca., the
new state of Jefferson elected John C. Childs (71) as its 1st
governor.
(AH, 2/05, p.22)

1942 Mar 28, Japanese-American
lawyer Minoru Yasui (1916-1986) violated a military curfew in
Portland, Oregon, and demanded to be arrested after he was refused
enlistment to fight for the US. He was one of the few Japanese
Americans who fought laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans
or Japanese immigrants following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In
2015 he was among 17 people awarded the presidential Medal of
Freedom.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Yasui)(SFC,
11/24/15, p.A5)

1942 Jun 22, A Japanese
submarine shelled Fort Stevens, Oregon, at the mouth of the Columbia
River.
(HN, 6/22/98)(MC, 6/22/02)

1942 Sep 9, A Japanese float
plane, launched from a submarine, made its first bombing run on a
U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. Japanese planes drop incendiary
bombs on Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of the
Northwest. The forests failed to ignite, but Pacific Coast citizens
stepped-up their blackout drills in preparation for future Japanese
raids.
(HN, 9/9/99)(MC, 9/9/01)

1942 Japanese pilot, Nobuo
Fujita (d. Sep 30, 1997 at 85), flew bombing runs over Oregon and
set fires in the coastal forests. In 1962 he visited the area he had
bombed with deep shame and sincere apologies and gave his
400-year-old samurai sword to the town of Brookings. In 1998 some of
his ashes were scattered over his bombing run.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B13)(SFC, 10/12/98, p.A7)

1945 May 5, A Japanese balloon
bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing Mrs. Elsie
Mitchell, the pregnant wife of a minister, and five children after
they attempted to drag it out the woods in Lakeview, Oregon. The
balloon was armed, and exploded soon after they began tampering with
it. They became the 1st and only known American civilians to be
killed in the continental US during World War II.
(AP, 5/5/97)(MC, 5/5/02)

1945 Jul 9, A 3rd big Tillamook
fire occurred near the Salmonberry River, and was joined two days
later by a second blaze on the Wilson River, started by a discarded
cigarette. This fire burned 180,000 acres before it was put out. The
cause of the blaze on the Salmonberry River was mysterious, and many
believed it had been set by an incendiary balloon launched by the
Japanese, and brought to Oregon by the jet stream.
(http://www.fact-index.com/t/ti/tillamook_burn.html)

1948 May 30, Vanport, Oregon,
was dramatically destroyed when a 200-foot (61 m) section of the
dike holding back the Columbia River collapsed during a flood,
killing 15. The city was underwater by nightfall leaving its
inhabitants homeless.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanport,_Oregon)

1949 The US federal government
designated Cape Perpetua in Oregon as a National Scenic Area.
(SSFC, 9/21/08, p.E8)

1952 Les Schwab (1917-2007)
purchased a run-down tire shop in Prineville, Ore. He soon expanded,
renamed the operation after himself and developed it into a major
tire chain. In 2006 sales reached $1.6 billion.
(WSJ, 6/9/07, p.A6)

1953 Jan, Sen. Wayne Morse of
Oregon left the Republican Party to protest its domination by
conservatives.
(WSJ, 5/25/01, p.A14)

1961 Sep 30, A bill for the
1773 Boston Tea Party was paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon. He wrote a
check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost.
(MC, 9/30/01)

1962 The first chemical
munitions arrived at Oregon’s Umatilla Chemical Depot and kept
coming until 1969. It was all done in secret.
(SFEC, 4/27/97,
p.A18)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umatilla_Chemical_Depot)

1964 Bill Bowerman (d.1999 at
88), coach at the University of Oregon (1949-1972), began an
operation with former runner Phil Knight that grew to become the
Nike Shoe Corp.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.C10)

1966 Autzen Stadium was built.
It replaced historic Hayward Field as the home of Oregon football,
and was named for the late Thomas J. Autzen, a Portland lumberman,
sportsman and philanthropist, who contributed $250,000 to the
original construction. He was the founder of the Autzen foundation,
which gave the university $250,000 to help finance the project.
(http://admissions.uoregon.edu/visit/qtvr/autzen/autzens.html)

1967-1997 Mark Odom Hatfield (b.1922) served as US
Senator for Oregon.
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000343)

1968 Oct 2, The 2,650-mile
Pacific Crest Trail, spanning Mexico to Canada, was designated a
National Scenic Trail as part of the US National Trails System Act.
{USA, California, Oregon, Washington}
(SFC, 7/16/08,
p.E2)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail)

1968 The Rogue River was named
as one the country's first national wild and Scenic rivers.
(SFEC, 3/19/00, p.T4)

1971 Nov 24, On Thanksgiving
eve DB Cooper boarded Flight 305 in Portland, Or., and demanded
$200,000 with the threat of a bomb. He parachuted from a Northwest
Airlines 727 with the money over the Cascade Mountains near Ariel,
Wash., and was never seen again. FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach
wrote the book NORJAK that described the case. A packet containing
$5,880 of the ransom money was found in 1980 on the north shore of
the Columbia River, just west of the Washington city of Vancouver.
In 2011 evidence was presented that Lynn Doyle Cooper (d.1999) of
Oregon, a Korean war veteran, was the hijacker. On July 13, 2016,
the FBI said it is no longer investigating the case.
(SFEC, 11/17/96, Z1 p.5)(AP, 11/24/97)(SFC,
8/4/11, p.A8)(SFC, 7/13/16, p.A6)

1971 William E. Colson
(1941-2007) founded Holiday Management in Salem, Ore., to develop
senior housing. By 2007 Holiday Retirement Corp. owned over 35,000
apartments in the US and Canada and was sold to Fortress Investment
Group for over $6.5 billion.
(WSJ, 5/26/07, p.A6)

1978 Dec 19, Jury selection
began in Salem, Ore., in the case of John J. Rideout, accused of
raping his wife, Greta. Rideout was acquitted; the couple divorced
after the trial.
(AP, 12/19/03)

1979 Feb 26, A total solar
eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North
Dakota before moving into Canada. This was the last total solar
eclipse of the 20th century for the continental US.
(AP, 2/26/99)(SC, 2/26/02)

1979 The Portland Central
America Solidarity Committee (PCASC) was founded in Portland,
Oregon, to educate and mobilize community members, workers and
students around struggles for human rights and social justice
throughout the Americas.
(www.pcasc.net/wordpress2/?page_id=13)

1979 Oregon voters approved a
law stipulating that if the state’s general-fund revenue exceeded
budget estimates by 2% or more, the excess had to go back to
taxpayers.
(WSJ, 3/24/06, p.A8)

1980 The town of Hillsboro had
27,664 residents. By 2002 it grew to over 70,000.
(SFC, 3/12/02, p.B10)

1981 The Oregon commune leader,
Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh (d.1990), was booted from the US for
immigration fraud. He moved his free-love Tantra commune back to
Pune, India. In 1985 he changed his name to Osho. His Tantric
ruminations were later published by St. Martin’s Press: "The Book of
Secrets." From the Pune school Marie Elizabeth Naslednikov (Margot
Anand) published "The Art of Sexual Ecstasy."
(WSJ, 12/7/98, p.A1,6)(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K6)(SSFC,
8/29/04, p.E3)

1981 Ward F. Weaver Jr., a
trucker from Oregon, clubbed to death a stranded motorist and raped
and strangled the man’s fiancé before dumping her body in Oroville,
Ca. Weaver was convicted and sentenced to 42 years in prison for
another crime involving rape and murder.
(SFC, 8/26/02, p.A3)

1981-1996 Stanford Chen (d.1999 at 51), reporter
and op-ed for the Oregonian, wrote "Counting on Each Other: A
History of the Asian American Journalists Association from
1981-1996."
(SFEC, 2/7/99, p.D8)

1984 Apr 27, In Oregon Billy
Gilley Jr. (28) murdered his parents and a sister (11) with a
baseball bat and ran away with his other sister Jody (16). She soon
contacted the police and Billy was arrested. In 2008 Kathryn
Harrison authored “While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a
Family."
(SFC, 6/17/08, p.E3)

1984 In Oregon members of the
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult sprinkled salmonella bacteria on salad
bar ingredients in local restaurants. Over 750 people were sickened.
(SFC, 2/20/98, p.A9)

1985 The film “Goonies" was
directed by Richard Donner. It was shot in Astoria, Oregon, where
the house at 368 38th St. became known as the Goonies House.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0089218/)(SSFC, 3/20/05,
p.D16)

1986 May 15, Searchers on
Oregon's Mount Hood found two teenage survivors of a hiking
expedition that became trapped in a whiteout blizzard. Nine other
climbers died.
(AP, 5/15/06)

1986 Nov 17, Pres. Reagan
signed the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act. It
designated over 292,000 acres in Oregon and Washington states as
federally regulated land. Much of the work in getting the act passed
was done by Nancy Russell (d.2008).
(www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/111786a.htm)(http://tinyurl.com/nphxt8)

1986 Roger Wendlick, a Portland
construction worker, began collecting everything related to the
Lewis and Clark expedition. In 1998 Lewis and Clark College agreed
to pay him $375,000 in cash and $30,000 a year for a decade for the
collection and gave him a desk in the library.
(WSJ, 12/5/03, p.A1)

1987 Jan 12, Neil Goldschmidt
(b.1940), former mayor of Portland, began serving a 4-year term as
governor of Oregon. He later served under Pres. Carter as Sec. of
Transportation. It was later reported that Goldschmidt had engaged
in a 3-year relationship, while mayor of Portland, with a girl (14)
who babysat his children.
(http://tinyurl.com/5l7rj)(SFC, 4/5/05, p.A11)

1988 Rogue Beer was born on the
Oregon coast in Newport.
(SSFC, 6/3/01, p.T12)
1988 Marion Carl (82), former
US Navy test pilot, was shot to death in Oregon by a house robber.
In 1947 he set a world speed record of 651 mph in a D-558-I at Muroc
Field (later Edwards AFB), Ca.
(SFC, 6/30/98, p.A3)(chblue.com, 8/25/01)
1988 In Portland, Ore., Paul
Erven Jackson and his older brother Vance Roberts began kidnapping
and holding prostitutes as sex slaves. Both men vanished in early
1991 after their mother bailed them from jail. Roberts surrendered
in 2006 and was later sentenced to 108 years in prison. Jackson (45)
was arrested in Mexico on Sep 28, 2015.
(SFC, 9/30/15, p.A7)

1990 Jan 19, Bhagwan Shree
Rajneesh (b.1931), Indian guru (Osho), died in Pune, India. From
1981 to 1985 he resided in the US. His followers were involved in a
bio-terrorist attack in Oregon in 1984.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.K6)(SFC, 6/15/05,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajneesh)

1990 Jan 23, In Oregon Keith
Hunter Jesperson (b.1955) began his career as a serial killer with
the sexual assault and murder of Taunja Bennett. He went on to
murder 8 women. He was arrested in March, 1995. In October 1995 just
before going to trial, he pleaded guilty to the murder of Bennett.
Multnomah County Presiding Judge Donald H. Londer sentenced
Jesperson to life in prison, setting a minimum 30-year prison term
before being eligible for parole. Jesperson claimed to have murdered
up to 160 people in California, Florida, Washington, Oregon and
Wyoming. In 2002 Jack Olsen (d.2002) authored “I: The Creation
of a Serial Killer."
(SSFC, 8/18/02,
p.M2)(www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/jesperson/murder_1.html)

1990 Apr 1, It became illegal
in Salem, Oregon, to be within 2' of nude dancers.
(MC, 4/1/02)

1990 Jun 4, Janet Adkins (54)
of Portland, Ore., became the first person to use a suicide machine
developed by Dr. Kevorkian. This began a national debate over the
right to die.
(SFC, 4/14/99,
p.A3)(www.lectlaw.com/files/cas20.htm)

1990 Oct, A $12.5 million
verdict against the White Aryan Resistance was pronounced for the
killing of an Ethiopian student in Portland.
(SFC, 7/25/98, p.A3)

1990 Michael Garnier opened his
Out 'n' About Treesort in Takilma, Oregon. Legal status from the
county was attained in 2001.
(SSFC, 6/8/03, p.C1)

1990s Specific details on the
stockpile at Umatilla was classified until the early 1990s.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)

1992 Jul 17, Donna Ferguson
(18) and Todd Rudiger (29) were murdered in Portland, Ore. In 1998
Sebastian Shaw was indicted for the murders. He pleaded guilty in
2000 and was sentenced to two life terms. Later, his DNA would be
conclusive evidence that he also killed one Jay Rickbeil in July
1991. He would receive a third sentence of life in prison. Shaw,
born in Vietnam in 1967 as Chau Quong, had been airlifted from the
roof of the US Embassy on the day Saigon fell.
(SFC, 5/25/06, p.B1)(http://tinyurl.com/h5n45)

1992 Oct 28, The US
Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) was enacted.
It banned betting on sports with exemptions to Delaware, Nevada,
Oregon and Montana.
(Econ, 9/26/09, p.42)(http://tinyurl.com/yenf89a)

1993 Oct 31, In Oregon 7 men
robbed the Oki Semiconductor facility in Portland of microchips
valued at several million dollars. There were convicted in 2001 and
4 of the men were sentenced to prison terms in 2002.
(SFC, 6/29/02, p.A16)

1993 Nov 2, Senate called for
full disclosure of Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood's diaries as part of a
probe into allegations of sexual harassment and possible criminal
wrongdoing by the Oregon Republican.
(AP, 11/2/98)

1993 Dec 16, Sen. Bob Packwood
(R-Ore.), accused by more than two dozen women of sexual harassment,
turned over his tape-recorded personal diaries to a federal judge.
(AP, 12/16/03)

1993 Ward Cunningham (b.1949)
founded the 1st Wiki site, The Portland Repository." The site was
developed so that multiple users could revise and update
information. He joined Microsoft in 2003.
(WSJ, 7/29/04, p.B1)(www.en.wikipedia.org)

1994 Jul 13, Tonya Harding's
ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, was sentenced in Portland, Ore., to two
years in prison for his role in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan. He
ended up serving six months.
(AP, 7/13/99)

1994 Nov, Oregon voters passed
a Death with Dignity Act. It allowed doctors to prescribe lethal
drugs for terminally ill patients with less than 6 months to live.
The law was upheld in 1997.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A4)

1995 May 17, The US Senate
ethics committee concluded that Sen. Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) had to
face a full-scale Senate investigation of charges that included
making improper advances toward women.
(AP, 5/17/00)

1995 Aug 4, A US judge ruled
that Oregon's assisted-suicide law, approved by the voters last
Nov., is unconstitutional. The law would have allowed doctors to
prescribe lethal doses of drugs for dying patients.
(WSJ, 8/4/95, p.B-1)

1995 Dec, In Medford Roxanne
Ellis (53) and Michelle Abdill (42) were kidnapped, robbed and
murdered by Robert Acremont (29). He pleaded guilty at his 1997
trial. Acremont was sentenced to death on Oct 27, 1997.
(SFEC,10/26/97, p.D12)(SFC,10/28/97, p.A10)

1995 Frank Curtis, a Mormon
brother, died. He had been convicted of criminal sex abuse. In his
1998 lawsuit filed in Multnomah County, Oregon, Jeremiah Scott,
accused the church of hiding the fact that Curtis, one of its high
priests, was a pedophile. Curtis was excommunicated from the church
in 1983 in Pennsylvania but was rebaptized in 1984 in Michigan. In
1988, he joined the Brentwood Ward in Portland. In 2011 Lisa Davis
authored “The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal,
Conviction, and the Mormon Church.
(SSFC, 3/20/11, p.G7)

1996 Jun 28, A fire in a
Portland suburb apartment building killed 8 people. A 12-year-old
boy initially hailed as a hero for alerting people to the fire later
admitted that he had set the fire.
(SFC, 8/22/97, p.A7)

1996 Tom Curtis and Ethan
Thrower, high school students, began to stage armed robberies for
thrills. Curtis (18) was arrested in 1998 in a Las Vegas hotel while
talking to his father, who used a 2nd line to talk to police.
(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A3)

1998 Mar 23, In Oregon 2 river
rafters were killed on the Illinois River at the section known as
the “Green Wall" after a weekend rainfall and snowmelt doubled the
river’s volume.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A4)

1998 Mar, The book “Oregon," by
Judy Jewell with photographs by Greg Vaughn, was part of the Compass
American Guides series and featured maps and plenty of local
history.
(SFEC, 5/10/98, p.T14)

1998 May 21, In Springfield,
Ore., Kipland Kinkel (15) killed 1 classmate and wounded 19 more at
Thurston High School. His parents, William (59) and Faith (57), were
found shot dead at home and a 2nd student died the next day. He had
been expelled from school the previous day for bringing a gun to
school. Kinkel dropped an insanity plea in 1999 and pleaded guilty
to 4 counts of murder and 26 counts of attempted murder. He was
sentenced over 111 years in prison.
(SFC, 5/22/98, p.A1)(SFC, 5/23/98, p.A1)(SFC,
9/25/99, p.A3)(SFC, 11/11/99, p.A3)

1998 Jun 28, Major Gen’l.
Marion Carl (82), a WW II fighter pilot, was fatally shot at his
home in southern Oregon during a robbery. Jesse Stuart Fanus (19)
was later arrested for the murder. Fanus was convicted in March and
a jury sentenced him to be executed in May, 1999.
(SFC, 7/6/98, p.A7)(SFC, 5/6/99, p.A3)

1998 Aug 3, The Oregon coastal
Coho salmon were listed by the federal government as a Threatened
species.
(SFC, 8/4/98, p.A7)

1998 Oct 31, Stephanie Condon
(14) vanished while babysitting a cousin's twins in Riddle, Oregon.
Her remains were found in 2009 in Glide, Ore., about 30 miles from
Riddle. Dale Wayne Hill, was arrested in Dayton, Nev., on March 25,
2009, on a charge of failure to register as a felon. He was the last
person known to have seen her alive.
(AP, 3/25/09)

1998 Dec 9, An appeals court in
Oregon ruled that the state constitution gives gay and lesbian
government employees the right to health and life insurance benefits
for their domestic partners.
(SFC, 12/10/98, p.C11)

1998 In Astoria, Or., the 1st
fisherman poet festival was organized.
(WSJ, 3/28/01, p.)
1998 The Nez Pierce tribe
returned to its ancient homeland in Oregon after 121 years of exile.
(SFEC, 2/13/00, BR p.5)
1998 Oregon passed a law that
allowed adult adoptees to access their birth records. The law became
effective in 2000 after the Supreme Court ended an appeals process.
(SFC, 5/31/00, p.A7)
1998 In Oregon 15 terminally
ill people took advantage of the new assisted suicide law.
(SFC, 2/18/99, p.A3)
1998 In Portland, Or., the
18-mile West Side MAX, Metropolitan Area Express, light rail system
began operating.
(WSJ, 12/2/99, p.A1)
1998 An arson fire at US Forest
Industries in Medford, Or., was committed by members of the Earth
Liberation Front. In 2007 Kendall Tankersley was sentenced to 3
years and 5 months in prison for her role.
(SFC, 6/1/07, p.A3)

1999 Feb 2, A federal jury in
Portland, Oregon, ordered abortion foes who had created "wanted"
posters and a Web site listing the names and addresses of "baby
butchers" to pay $107 million in damages; the defendants said they
would appeal. In 2004 the case was before the U.S. Supreme Court.
(AP, 2/2/04)

1999 Feb 11, On the Oregon
coast the New Carissa cargo ship was set on fire with explosives to
burn off some 400,000 gallons of fuel oil to prevent its spillage.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A5)

1999 Feb 27, The New Carissa
was dragged out to sea for sinking.
(SFEC, 2/28/99, p.A7)

1999 Mar 3, The New Carissa ran
aground again after its towline broke during towing in stormy seas.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A3)

1999 Mar 11, Navy demolition
experts set off explosives to sink the New Carissa 290 miles off the
central Oregon coast.
(SFC, 3/12/99, p.A3)

1999 Mar 30, A jury in Oregon
hit Philip Morris with an $81 million verdict for damages in the
lung cancer death of Jesse Williams who died of lung cancer after
smoking Marlboros for four decades. $821,000 was for compensatory
damages and the rest for punitive damages. The Supreme Court threw
out the verdict in October 2003, saying it should be reviewed by
lower courts to ensure it was not unconstitutionally excessive. In
2007 the Supreme Court rejected the original $79.5 million punitive
payout, but declined to lay down numerical limits for such damages.
By 2008 damages due to interest reached $143 million. In 2009 the
Supreme Court decided not to a challenge by Philip Morris.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A1)(AP, 3/30/04)(Econ, 2/24/07,
p.76)(SFC, 4/1/09, p.A8)

1999 Jun 2, The body of a
17-year-old girl was found in the Forest Park area of Portland. This
was the 3rd young woman found killed in the last month.
(SFC, 6/5/99, p.A7)

1999 Jun 4, A federal judge in
Portland ruled that AT&T must open its cable lines to
competitors.
(SFC, 6/5/99, p.A1)

1999 Jun 9, It was reported
that anarchist radicals, mentored by writer John Zerzan (55),
calling themselves the Black Army Faction were engaging in vandalism
and arson attacks on businesses in Eugene.
(WSJ, 6/9/99, p.B1)

1999 Aug 6, The Trojan Nuclear
Plant reactor began its barge move on the Columbia River for burial
at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A3)

1999 Sep 15, A leak at the
Umatilla Chemical Depot overcame 34 workers, who were building a new
incinerator. The depot contained over 3,000 tons of deadly nerve and
mustard agents, scheduled for incineration upon completion of the
project in October 2001.
(SFC, 8/1/00, p.A5)

1999 Sep 24, Oregon teenager
Kip Kinkel, who killed his parents and gunned down two classmates at
school, abandoned an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to murder.
He was later sentenced to 112 years without parole.
(AP, 9/24/00)

1999 Oct 18, Efforts to drag
the stern of the New Carissa off the beach near Coos Bay continued.
(SFC, 10/19/99, p.A3)

1999 Nov 28, A float plane
crashed into the Columbia River shortly after takeoff 45 miles east
of Portland. William S. "Tiger" Warren (48), chairman of the
Macheezmo Mouse restaurant chain was killed with his 3 sons.
(SFC, 11/29/99, p.A3)

1999 Dec 30, A remote 80-foot
power-line tower was toppled and described as an isolated case of
criminal mischief.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.D4)

1999 Oussama Kassir, a
Lebanese-born Swede, plotted to help Al-Qaida recruit for a weapons
training post in Bly, Oregon. In 2009 Kassir was convicted in New
York for plotting to help Al-Qaida and for distributing terrorist
training manuals over the Internet.
(SFC, 5/13/09, p.A4)

2000 Jan 19, Halfway, Ore.,
adopted the new name of Half.Com in exchange for $75,000 and 22
computers from a Pennsylvania company with the same name.
(SFC, 1/21/00, p.A10)

2000 Feb 2, A federal jury in
Portland, Oregon, ordered abortion foes who had created “wanted"
posters and a Web site listing the names and addresses of “baby
butchers" to pay $107 million in damages; the defendants promised to
appeal.
(AP, 2/2/01)

2000 May 3, The sport of
geocaching began with a cache hidden outside Portland, Oregon.
(WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A20)

2000 May 16, Ballots were
counted in the nation’s first regular primary election conducted by
mail. Estimated response was 47%.
(SFC, 5/17/00, p.A8)

2000 Jul 20, Willamette
Industries of Portland was fined $11.2 million under the federal
Clean Air Act plus $8 mil in contributions to environmental
projects. It also agreed to install an estimated $74 million worth
of pollution control equipment. The company estimated the new
equipment at $28 mil.
(SFC, 7/21/00, p.A5)(WSJ, 7/21/00, p.A1)

2000 Oct 10, In Portland the
Roman Catholic Church apologized for the sexual abuse committed by
Rev. Maurice Grammond (80) between 1950-1974. The church agreed to
pay and undisclosed sum to 22 men.
(SFC, 10/11/00, p.A3)

2000 The Oregon state
constitution was amended to include a kicker, i.e. a 1979 law that
stipulated that if the state’s general-fund revenue exceeded budget
estimates by 2% or more, the excess had to go back to taxpayers.
(WSJ, 3/24/06, p.A8)

2000 Testing of the incinerator
at Umatilla was scheduled to begin. The resulting burned ash and
metal would be buried in a hazardous-waste landfill in Arlington, 44
miles west of the depot.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)

2001 Feb 28, A 6.8 magnitude
slab earthquake shook the Northwest and rocked the cities of Seattle
and Portland, Oregon. It was centered 32.6 miles below the surface
along the boundary of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and the
continental North American plate. Damages were later estimated at
$1.5-2 billion.
(SFC, 3/1/01, p.A1)(WSJ, 3/2/01, p.A1)(SFC,
1/5/02, p.A4)(AP, 2/28/02)

2001 May 21, In Seattle, Wa.,
members of the Earth Liberation Front torched the Univ. of
Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture causing about $6 million
in damage. An Oregon tree farm owned by Jefferson Poplar Farms was
also burned. 4 people were later convicted of taking part in the
firebombing. One later committed suicide in prison.
(SFC, 9/16/10,
p.C5)(http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=3180)

2001 Jun 1, Logging trucks were
set on fire to protest logging on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon.
4 activists including Michael Scarpitti were charged. In 2004
Scarpitti was arrested in Vancouver, BC, while trying to shoplift
some bolt cutters. In 2005 Canada ordered that Scarpitti, aka Tre
Arrow, be extradited to the US to face firebombing charges. In 2007
Suzanne Savoie was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months for her role in
this and one another arson fire. In 2008 Scarpitti was extradited to
the US to face ecoterrorism charges.
(SFC, 2/16/04, p.A7)(SFC, 7/8/05, p.A3)(SFC,
6/1/07, p.A3)(SSFC, 3/2/08, p.A2)

2001 Nov 20, Portland police
said they would not cooperate with FBI efforts to interview some
5,000 Middle Eastern men because the questioning violated state
laws.
(SFC, 11/21/01, p.A11)

2001 Dec 19-24, Christian
Michael Longo (27) killed his wife and 3 children. The bodies of
Mary Jane Longo and 2-year-old daughter were found in an inlet along
the central Oregon coast a week after the bodies of 2 other Longo
children were found. Longo was arrested in Mexico Jan 13. Longo was
convicted and sentenced to death Apr 16, 2003.
(SFC, 12/31/01, p.A9)(SFC, 1/16/02, p.A3)(SFC,
4/17/03, p.A10)

2001 In Portland, Oregon, the
Metropolitan Area Express (MAX), a light rail system, extended
operations from downtown to the airport. This was the first train to
the plane on the west coast.
(WSJ, 12/2/99, p.A1)(Econ, 9/2/06, p.28)

2002 Jan 9, Ashley Pond (12)
was last seen in Oregon City, 20 miles south of Portland, Or.
Miranda Gaddis (13) disappeared from the same neighborhood on Mar 8.
The remains of Gaddis were found Aug 24 behind the house of Ward
Weaver (39), who lived across the street. Weaver was arrested Aug 13
for the rape of his 19-year-old son’s girlfriend. Pond’s remains
were found Aug 25.
(SSFC, 8/25/02, p.A7)(SFC, 8/26/02, p.A3)(SFC,
8/27/02, p.A3)

2002 Jan 13, Christian Michael
Longo (27), wanted on charges of killing his wife and three children
in 2001 and dumping their bodies into coastal waters off Oregon, was
arrested in Mexico. Longo had fled the US and impersonated
journalist Michael Finkel while abroad. Finkel was fired by the NY
Times Magazine in February for creating a composite character in a
story on child slavery in West Africa. In 2005 Finkel authored “True
Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa."
(SFC, 1/15/02, p.A1)(AP, 1/13/03)(SSFC, 6/5/05,
p.B2)

2002 Feb 6, The Oregon Health
Division released statistics on assisted suicides for last year. 44
people received prescriptions for lethal medication but only 21
actually took their lives.
(SFC, 2/7/02, p.A3)

2002 ~Feb 23, Robert Bryant
(37) shot to death his wife and 4 children (9-15) and them himself
at their home in McInnville, Oregon. The bodies were not found until
Mar 14.
(SFC, 3/16/02, p.A6)

2002 Apr 15, Damon Knight (79),
science fiction writer and editor, died in Eugene. His work included
“The Futurians" (1977), a memoir of a group of budding writers that
included Asimov, Wollheim, Pohl and himself. His 1950 story “To
Serve Man" was made into a Twilight Zone episode in 1962.
(SFC, 4/19/02, p.A27)

2002 Apr 17, US District Judge
Robert Jones upheld Oregon’s assisted-suicide law and said that
Attorney General John Ashcroft should not “determine the legitimacy"
of medical acts.
(SFC, 4/18/02, p.A3)

2002 May 21, The Bush
administration said it will allow new mining to resume on nearly 1
million acres of the Siskiyou region.
(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A7)

2002 May 30, In Oregon 3 of 9
hikers were killed while climbing Mt. Hood. A Pave Hawk rescue
helicopter crashed in an attempt to rescue the climbers.
(WSJ, 5/31/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/31/02, p.A1)

2002 Aug 8, In Oregon the
Florence and Sour Biscuit fires merged and formed the largest active
fire in the nation. The fire soon covered 308,000 acres.
(SFC, 8/9/02, p.A9)(SFC, 8/10/02, p.A5)

2002 Aug 22, In Oregon
President Bush proposed to end the government's "hands-off" policy
in national forests and ease logging restrictions in fire-prone
areas.
(WSJ, 8/23/02, p.A1)(AP, 8/22/03)

2002 Aug 24, In Oregon City,
Ore., the FBI uncovered human remains in an outbuilding behind the
house of Ward Weaver III, a suspect in the case of two missing girls
who lived across the street. Authorities recovered the remains of
Ashley Pond (12) and Miranda Gaddis (13). In 2004 Weaver pleaded
guilty to aggravated murder and no contest to other charges of
sexual abuse. A plea bargain allowed him to avoid the death penalty
and he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison.
(AP,
8/24/07)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Weaver_III)

2002 Sep 27, The federal
government increased the flow of water into the Klamath River from
Upper Klamath Lake in Oregon following the die-off of some 12,000
salmon in northern California.
(SFC, 9/28/02, p.A2)

2004 Apr 20, An Oregon judge
ordered a halt to same sex marriages. He also ordered official
recognition of marriages already held in Multnomah County.
(SFC, 4/21/04, p.A3)

2004 May 6, The US FBI, using
fingerprint evidence, arrested Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield as
part of the investigation into the Madrid, Spain, train bombings.
The bureau later said Mayfield's arrest had been a mistake, and
apologized. In 2006 the US government agreed to pay Mayfield $2
million to settle a lawsuit.
(AP, 5/6/05)(SFC, 11/30/06, p.A7)

2004 May 24, Brooke Wilberger
(19) vanished from an apartment in Corvallis, Ore. In 2009 Joel
Courtney (43) pleaded guilty to her murder and revealed the location
of her remains. He was sentenced to life in prison.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Wilberger)(SFC, 9/22/09, p.A5)

2004 Jul 6, The Archdiocese of
Portland, Ore., filed for bankruptcy due to the financial impact of
sexual abuse claims.
(SFC, 7/7/04, p.A3)

2004 Nov, Voters in Oregon
approved ballot measure 37, which gave people who owned land before
1973 the right to ask officials to waive land use rules or pay
owners for lost value.
(Econ, 10/22/05, p.35)

2005 Mar 18, The film “The Ring
Two" opened. It featured Astoria, Oregon, a seaside town of about
10,000 people.
(SSFC, 3/20/05, p.D16)

2005 Jun 28, Dr. Donald Clark
(b.1910), former president of California’s San Jose State Univ.
(1964-1969) and Univ. of Oregon (c1970-1975), died in Eugene, Ore.
In 1951 Clark authored “The Life of Matthew Simpson," a biography of
the Methodist bishop and orator.
(SSFC, 7/3/05, p.A25)

2005 Aug 1, The Oregon state
legislature passed the nation’s strictest anti-methamphetamine
measure requiring prescriptions for many over-the-counter cold
medications. Gov. Ted Kulongoski was expected to sign it within 5-10
days. It posed a challenge to the FDA in regulating medicines.
(WSJ, 8/1/05, p.A3)

2005 Dec 8, US federal
prosecutors announced six arrests of eco-sabotage suspects following
a 9-year investigation in 4 arson cases in Oregon dating to 1998 and
2001 and a toppled power line in Bend, Oregon in 1999.
(SFC, 12/9/05, p.A6)

2005 Actual burning of chemical
weapons at Umatilla was scheduled to be completed, just in time to
meet a congressional deadline.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A18)

2006 Jan 17, The US Supreme
Court told the Justice Department to butt out of the private
decisions of terminally ill patients in Oregon, the only state that
specifically allows physician-assisted suicide. The court ruled 6-3
ruling that Congress hadn't given the Justice Department authority
to take such action.
(AP, 1/18/06)

2006 Apr 28, The US government
adopted a federal advisory council’s recommendations for deep cuts
to the 2006 salmon season for California and Oregon.
(SFC, 4/29/06, p.B1)

2006 May 21, In Oregon
demolition crews destroyed the 499-foot cooling tower of the Trojan
Nuclear Power Plant. Demolition of the containment dome was
scheduled in 2008.
(SFC, 5/22/06, p.A2)

2006 Aug 6, Scientists said a
recurring "dead zone" of low-oxygen water off the Oregon coast is
larger than in previous years and may be triggered by global
warming. They concluded that it is being caused by explosive blooms
of tiny plants known as phytoplankton, which die and sink to the
bottom, then are eaten by bacteria which use up the oxygen in the
water. The zone first appeared in 2002 and by 2006 covered some
1,235 square miles, an area about the size of Rhode Island.
(AP, 8/6/06)(SSFC, 8/6/06, p.A3)

2006 Dec 4, In Oregon rescuers
found SF residents Kati Kim and her 2 daughters near Grants Pass.
They had been missing for 9 days while on a road trip. James Kim,
who went to seek help on Dec 2, was still missing.
(SFC, 12/5/06, p.A1)

2006 Dec 6, James Kim, a San
Francisco man who struck out alone to find help for his family after
their car got stuck on a snowy, remote road in Oregon was found
dead, bringing an end to what authorities called an extraordinary
effort to stay alive.
(AP, 12/7/06)

2006 Dec 15, About 1.5 million
homes and businesses in Washington and Oregon had no power after
howling windstorms and heavy rains caused at least three deaths,
closed two major bridges and sparked flooding.
(AP, 12/15/06)

2006 Dec 16, Residents of the
US Pacific Northwest struggled to stay warm after the worst
windstorm in more than a decade knocked out power to more than 1.5
million homes and businesses. The storm killed at least 14 people,
including 6 from carbon monoxide.
(AP, 12/16/06)(WSJ, 12/19/06, p.A1)

2006 Dec 17, Kelly James of
Dallas, one of 3 missing climbers, was found dead in a snow cave on
Mount Hood.
(AP, 12/17/06)

2006 Millions of bees began
disappearing in the Fall across the US and Western Europe in what
came to be called “colony collapse disorder." In 2007 beekeepers in
Oregon said they had not observed any losses.
(SFC, 4/14/07, p.B6)
2006 Bobby Jack F Fowler died
of lung cancer in an Oregon prison. In 2012 the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police said that partly based on improved DNA testing, it is
certain that he murdered 16-year-old Colleen MacMillen in 1974. US
authorities linked him to the slayings of four other teenage girls.
(Reuters, 9/25/12)

2007 Jan 27, In Oregon the new
$57 million Portland Aerial Tram officially began operations. Two
78-passenger cabins carried commuters from the Banks of the
Willamette to the campus of the Oregon Health and Sciences Univ. on
Marquam Hill.
(SFC, 1/29/07, p.A4)

2007 Apr 7, In Oregon 15
libraries in Jackson were due to close following the loss of $7
million in federal funding.
(SSFC, 3/4/07, p.A1)

2007 May 7, Scientists testing
the beds of streams around Portland, Oregon, found the residue of
the region's medicine cabinets and coffee shops. The list of
compounds includes many known by such names as Prozac, Tagamet,
Benadryl, Micatin, and caffeine.
(AP, 5/8/07)

2007 May 15, Voters in southern
Oregon’s Jackson County defeated a property tax measure to prop up
the county’s 15 public libraries.
(SFC, 5/17/07, p.A5)

2007 Jul 1, In Oregon the
bodies of David Cheryl Gibbs of the SF Bay Area and priest David
Schwartz of Garden Grove, Ca., last seen on June 8, were found in
the wreckage of their car 60 miles west of Portland. A motorist
reported the accident to 911 on June 8, but emergency crews failed
to find the wreck.
(SFC, 7/2/07, p.A1)(SFC, 7/3/07, p.B5)

2007 Jul 7, In Oregon Kent
Couch (47) in his lawn chair with some snacks and a parachute rose
to the sky under 105 large helium balloons. Nearly 9 hours later the
gas station owner came back to earth in a farmer's field near Union,
193 miles from home. In September he had gotten off the ground for
six hours.
(AP, 7/10/07)

2007 Oct 8, Thad Starr of
Pleasant Hill, Oregon, won the 34th annual pumpkin competition in
Half Moon Bay with his 1,524 pound squash. The world record was set
this year by Joe Jutras of Rhode Island with a 1,689-pound squash.
(SFC, 10/9/07, p.B1)

2007 Nov 14, A US-led team from
Oregon said they had created the world's first cloned embryo from a
monkey, in work that could spur cloning of human cells for use in
medical research.
(AFP, 11/14/07)(WSJ, 11/15/07, p.A1)

2007 Nov 18, The Jesuit order
of the Roman Catholic Church in Oregon agreed to pay $50 million to
110 Eskimos to settle claims of sexual abuse in Alaska.
(SFC, 11/19/07, p.A3)(Reuters, 11/19/07)

2007 Nov 28, Joseph Hokai Tang
(28), musician and violin dealer, was arrested for fraud following a
performance in Eugene, Oregon. In 2008 he pleaded guilty to 10 fraud
counts and admitted to bilking at least 120 people out of $400,000
worth of instruments. In 2008 he was sentenced in SF District Court
to 37 months in prison.
(SFC, 5/12/08, p.A1)(SFC, 10/21/08, p.B1)

2007 Dec 4, The governors of
Washington and Oregon declared states of emergency after a severe
storm smacked the region with hurricane-force winds and several
inches of rain. At least four people were killed by the storm.
(AP, 12/4/07)

2008 Jan 4, Flights were
grounded and trucks overturned in Northern California as wind gusted
to 80 mph during the second wave of the arctic storm that has sent
trees crashing onto houses, cars and roads. Hundreds of thousands of
customers lost power from central California into Oregon and
Washington. An estimated 1.9-2.1 million PG&E customers lost
power.
(AP, 1/5/08)(SFC, 1/8/08, p.A1)

2008 May 1, The National Marine
Fishery Service announced a ban on fishing for chinook salmon in the
ocean off California and most of Oregon.
(SFC, 5/2/08, p.B2)

2008 Jun 17, Neil Beagley (16)
died in Oregon of complications from a urinary tract blockage. In
2010 a jury found parents Jeff and Marci Beagley, followers of
Christ Church in Oregon City, guilty of criminally negligent
homicide for praying over their ill son instead of seeking medical
help. On March 8, 2010, Jeff and Marci Beagley were each sentenced
to 16 months in prison on charges of criminally negligent homicide.
(SFC, 2/3/10, p.A8)(SFC, 3/9/10, p.A4)

2008 Jul 5, Kent Couch (48), a
gas station owner, flew a lawn chair rigged with helium-filled
balloons more than 200 miles across the Oregon desert, landing in a
field in Idaho. He used his trusty BB gun to help him return to
Earth.
(AP, 7/6/08)(www.couchballoons.com/)

2008 Aug 3, In Gearhart,
Oregon, a small plane crashed into a seaside house killing 2 people
aboard and 2 children in the vacation home.
(SFC, 8/5/08, p.A3)

2008 Aug 27, In Mexico a
38-year-old man from Oregon was arrested in San Jose del Cabo
following a fight at an apartment complex. He died in jail hours
later. On Aug 31 six Mexican officers placed under house
arrest on suspicion of homicide.
(AP, 9/2/08)

2008 Sep 15, In Oaxaca, Mexico,
Omar Yoguez Singu (32) allegedly had consensual sex with Marcella
Grace Eiler (20) of Eugene, Oregon. He then killed her with a
machete after an argument. Her badly decomposed body was found Sep
24 in a shack 80 miles south of Oaxaca City. Friends of Singu beat
him up after he confessed to the crime and on Sep 24 turned him over
to police.
(AP, 9/28/08)

2008 Sep 17, The Bush
administration released $100 million in disaster relief to West
coast salmon fisherman, $70 million less that was approved by
Congress. About $63 million will go to California, $25 million to
Oregon and $12 million to Washington state.
(SFC, 9/18/08, p.A8)

2008 Oct 13, In Half Moon
Bay, Ca., Thad Starr of Pleasant Hill, Ore., won the 35th annual
Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. His 1,528 pumpkin beat
the record he set last year by 4 pounds.
(SFC, 10/14/08, p.B3)

2008 Nov 1, Members of the
Machinists Union, representing some 27,000 workers in Washington,
Oregon, and Kansas, ratified a new contract with the Boeing Co.
ending an 8-week strike.
(SSFC, 11/2/08, p.A4)

2008 Nov 12, Mitch Mitchell
(61), English drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of
the 1960s and the group's last surviving member, was found dead in
his hotel room in Portland, Oregon, the last stop on the West Coast
part of a tour.
(AP, 11/13/08)(SFC, 11/13/08, p.B4)

2008 Dec 12, In Woodburn,
Oregon, a bomb exploded inside a branch of the West Coast Bank,
killing a police officer and a state bomb disposal technician.
Police arrested Joshua A. Turnidge (32), a steelworker, in Salem on
Dec 14. Joshua’s father, Bruce Turnidge (57), was also soon arrested
and charged with the bombing. In 2010 Bruce Turnidge and his son
were convicted on 18 counts related to the bank bombing.
(AP, 12/13/08)(SSFC, 12/14/08, p.A6)(SFC,
12/15/08, p.A3)(SFC, 12/16/08, p.A4)(WSJ, 12/27/08, p.A2)(SFC,
12/9/10, p.A18)

2008 Dec 28, Thomas Boklund
(b.1939), former head of Oregon Steel Mills Inc., died. In 2007 the
company merged with Russia’s Evraz Group SA in a deal valued at
$2.35 billion.
(WSJ, 1/31/09, p.A4)

2009 Jan 8, Flooding in the US
Pacific Northwest led to mudslides and avalanches and closed 20
miles of I-5 between Olympia, Wa., and the Oregon line.
(SFC, 1/9/09, p.A2)

2009 Jan 21, In Portland,
Oregon, officials said they would begin a criminal investigation
into newly elected Mayor Sam Adams (45), who admitted shortly after
taking office on January 1 that he had lied during his campaign
about a sexual relationship with a much younger gay man.
(WSJ, 1/24/09, p.A4)

2009 Mar 12, The Pacific
Fishery Management Council agreed to extend for a 2nd year the
fishing ban of chinook salmon in California and Oregon.
(SFC, 3/13/09, p.B1)

2009 May 12, A federal jury in
New York convicted Oussama Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, of
plotting to help Al-Qaida recruit for a weapons training post in
Bly, Oregon in 1999 and for distributing terrorist training manuals
over the Internet.
(SFC, 5/13/09, p.A4)

2009 Jun 5, In Oregon Korena
Roberts (b.1980) bludgeoned to death Heather Snively (21) of
Maryland and cut her unborn child from her womb. The baby did not
survive. In 2010 Roberts pleaded guilty to aggravated murder and was
sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/7/10,
p.A6)(www.kval.com/news/69767317.html)

2009 Nov 13, The United States'
first marijuana cafe opened in Portland, Oregon, posing an early
test of the Obama administration's move to relax policing of medical
use of the drug.
(AP, 11/14/09)

2009 Nov 27, In China Justin
Franchi Solondz, an American man wanted in the US on terrorism
charges, was sentenced in Dali city, Yunnan province, for making
illegal drugs. The FBI office in Seattle listed Solondz among its
"most wanted." Charges in 2006 related to his alleged role in 2001
with the Earth Liberation Front. Solondz was accused of having a
role in the destruction of a horticulture center at the University
of Washington, as well as the destruction of several buildings in
Oregon.
(AP, 11/28/09)

2010 Oct 21, In Oregon a former
Bend police captain and his wife, who have been under investigation
by the FBI and IRS over their real estate dealings in Oregon and
Indiana, were indicted on fraud charges. Kevin (56) and Tamara (47)
"Tami" Sawyer were charged with 21 counts of various crimes that
include conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, bank fraud and
money laundering. Prosecutors claim the fraud cost investors more
than $4.4 million.
(AP, 10/23/10)

2010 Nov 26, US federal agents
in a sting operation arrested Mohamed Osman Mohamud (19), a
Somali-born teenager, just as he tried blowing up a van he believed
was loaded with explosives at a crowded Christmas tree lighting
ceremony in Portland.
(AP, 11/27/10)

2010 Nov 28, In Oregon an
Islamic center in Corvallis was firebombed, 2 days after Somali-born
Mohamed Osman Mohamud was arrested in a sting operation for trying
to blow up a van full of explosives in Portland. In August, 2011,
federal officials arrested Cody Crawford (24) for firebombing the
mosque.
(SFC, 11/29/10, p.A7)(SFC, 8/26/11, p.A5)

2010 Dec 16, A federal
indictment said a Texas couple, Najmeh Vahid and Dr. Hossein Lahiji,
and the head of an Oregon charity secretly sent millions of dollars
to an Iranian bank and to a contact in Iran for nine years,
violating a US embargo. The head of the charity, Mehrdad Yasrebi,
allegedly funneled money that was meant for food and other
assistance to his cousin and to a bank controlled by the Iranian
government.
(AP, 12/16/10)

2011 May 19, Doctors in Oregon
announced that electrodes implanted on the spinal cord of Rob
Summers (25) had reactivated nerve circuits and allowed him to
consciously move body parts that had been paralyzed following a 2006
hit and run accident.
(SFC, 5/20/11, p.A8)

2011 Jun 7, In Oregon City,
Oregon, Timothy and Rebecca Wyland were convicted of felony criminal
mistreatment for refusing to get medical treatment for their infant
daughter Alayna. The Wylands belong to a church that only believes
in faith healing, and although their daughter had a growth on one
eye that nearly blinded her, they would not take her to a doctor.
The state intervened and made sure Alayna did receive medical
treatment. The Wylands are sentenced at the end of June, they face
up to five years in jail.
(Portland Oregonian, 6/7/11)

2011 Jun 18, In Portland,
Oregon, thousands of naked bicyclists gathered near the city's
waterfront for a clothing-free night ride. Since the World Naked
Bike Ride started in 2004, only four other cities -- San Francisco,
Seattle, and Boulder and Black Rock City in Colorado -- have
celebrated it every year.
(Reuters, 6/19/11)

2011 Jul 26, Oregon Rep. David
Wu (56) said he would resign his Democratic seat in the US Congress
following allegations of sexual misconduct with a teenage girl.
(SFC, 7/25/11, p.A7)

2011 Aug 7, Mark Hatfield (89),
former Oregon governor (1958-1966) and US Senator (1967-1997), died
in Portland. In 1965 Hatfield was the only US governor to vote
against a resolution supporting Pres. Johnson’s policy in Vietnam.
(SFC, 8/9/11, p.C4)

2011 Aug 17, The Vatican,
reeling from unprecedented criticism over its handling of sexual
abuse cases in Ireland, took the unusual step of publishing its
internal files about Rev. Andrew Ronan (d.1992) accused of molesting
youngsters in Ireland and the US. A man, known in court papers as
John V. Doe, was seeking to hold the Vatican liable for the abuse.
Files showed that the Holy See didn't learn of the accusations
against Ronan until 1966, after the abuse against Doe occurred in
Portland.
(AP, 8/17/11)

2011 Aug 19, SoloPower of San
Jose, Ca., won final approval for a $197 million federal loan
guarantee to expand its headquarters and open 2 new manufacturing
facilities in Portland, Ore.
(SFC, 8/20/11, p.D1)

2011 Sep 28, In Everett,
Washington, Leslie Pedersen (69), the stepmother of David Joseph
Pedersen was found stabbed to death. On Oct 5 DJ Pedersen (31) and
girlfriend Holly Grigsby (24) were arrested in California. Grigsby
later admitted to killing Leslie. They were also charged with
killing Christian Cody Myers, a 19-year-old Oregon jazz fan on his
way to a music festival. The pair also killed DJ’s father, David
Jones Pedersen, as well as Alan Clark (54), found dead on Oct 7 in
northern California. In 2012 federal racketeering charges were filed
in Oregon against David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby alleging that
their rampage was part of a white supremacist campaign.
(SFC, 10/6/11, p.A7)(AP, 10/10/11)(SFC, 10/11/11,
p.A6)(SFC, 8/18/12, p.A7)

2011 Sep 29, In Oregon Dale and
Shannon Hickman, both 26, were convicted of manslaughter, becoming
the latest members of a faith-healing church to be blamed in their
child’s death. They were followers of Christ Church, which has a
history of rejecting medical care and relying instead on techniques
such as prayer and anointing the sick with oils. On Oct 31 the
Hickman’s were sentenced to over 6 years in prison.
(SFC, 9/30/11,
p.A8)(http://tinyurl.com/3jncwsz)(SFC, 11/1/11, p.A6)

2011 Oct 21, In western Oregon
Christopher Ochoa (20), a California member of the US Marine Corps
Reserves, was shot and killed after a hunter mistook him for a bear.
(AP, 10/22/11)

2011 Oct 27, In Oregon the last
ton of mustard gas at Umatilla was incinerated leaving the US with
just 3 of 9 original chemical weapons storage sites, the last of
which is scheduled for full disposal by 2023.
(SFC, 10/28/11, p.A12)

2011 Oct 30, Dozens of
protesters at economic inequality demonstrations in Austin, Texas,
and Portland, Oregon were arrested peacefully over allegedly failing
to comply with rules in each city.
(Reuters, 10/30/11)

2012 Feb 28, William Hamilton
(b.1924), theologian and proponent of the death of God movement,
died in Portland, Oregon.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hamilton_%28theologian%29)

2012 Feb, In northern
California and southern Oregon migrating waterfowl began dropping
dead from avian cholera as they gathered in Lower Klamath National
Wildlife Refuge. An estimated 10-20,000 birds died from the disease.
(SFC, 4/21/12, p.A1)

2012 Jun 6, Authorities in
Oregon confirmed that a 66-foot-long pier, that floated onto a beach
near Newport, came from Japan following the tsunami in March 2011.
(SFC, 6/7/12, p.A9)

2012 Sep 12, The City Council
of Portland, Oregon, voted to fluoridate its water beginning in
2014. It had been the largest US city to refuse the process, which
resulted in some of the worst tooth decay in the nation.
(SFC, 9/13/12, p.A7)

2012 Sep 28, President Barack
Obama, citing national security risks, blocked a Chinese company
from owning four wind farm projects in northern Oregon near a Navy
base where the US military flies unmanned drones and
electronic-warfare planes on training missions.
(AP, 9/28/12)

2012 Sep 26, In Oregon hog
farmer Terry Vance Garner (69) never returned after he set out to
feed his animals on his farm in Coos County. A family member found
Garner's dentures and pieces of his body in the hog enclosure
several hours later, but most of his remains had been consumed.
(AP, 10/1/12)

2012 Oct 18, In Portland,
Oregon, the Boy Scouts of America some 4,500 pages of secret
"perversion files" released by order of the Oregon Supreme Court,
their maneuvers protected suspected sexual predators while victims
suffered in silence. The new files from Scout headquarters in Texas
dated back to the 1920s.
(AP, 10/19/12)(SFC, 10/19/12, p.A1)

2012 Nov 29, Rebecca Jeanette
Rubin (39), a Canadian citizen and environmental radical, turned
herself in to the FBI at border in Blaine, Washington. She was part
of a cell in Eugene, Oregon, known as the Family, and was sought for
setting fires at a Vail ski resort and a lumber mill in Medford,
Oregon.
(SFC, 11/30/12, p.A8)

2012 Dec 11, In Oregon a masked
gunman opened fire at Clackamas Town Center, a mall in suburban
Portland. Jacob Tyler Roberts (22), armed himself with an AR-15
semiautomatic rifle he stole from someone he knew, went on a rampage
that left two people dead and one injured before he killed himself.
(SFC, 12/12/12, p.A5)(AP, 12/13/12)

2012 Dec 30, In Oregon a tour
bus careened through a guardrail on an icy part of I-84 and several
hundred feet down a steep embankment, killing five people and
injuring about 20 others.
(AP, 12/30/12)

2013 Jan 1, Ten states kicked
off the new year with a minimum wage rise of between 10 and 35
cents. The rises went into effect in Arizona, Colorado, Florida,
Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and
Washington.
(Reuters, 1/1/13)

2013 Apr 16, A European court
blocked Britain from extraditing a mentally ill suspect accused of
trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon. The European
Court of Human Rights ruled that sending Haroon Aswat to a prison in
the United States would breach his human rights due to the "severity
of his mental condition." Aswat was arrested on a US warrant in
2005, and has been fighting extradition ever since.
(AP, 4/16/13)

2013 Apr 28, Kirsten Englund
(57), a retired accountant from Castro Valley, Ca., was killed at a
rest stop on the Oregon coast. On day later Jeffrey Griffin Boyce of
Coos County was arrested in Greenbrae, California, after holding two
people hostage. He son became the prime suspect in the murder of
Englund.
(SFC, 5/2/13, p.A1)

2013 May 23, In Oregon Grant
Acord (17) was arrested after police received a tip that he was
making a bomb to explode in West Albany High School.
(SSFC, 5/26/13, p.A11)

2013 Jul 12, The Oregon Fish
and Wildlife commission adopted provisions of a lawsuit settlement
that will make the state the only one in the West where killing
wolves that attack livestock must be a last resort.
(SFC, 7/13/13, p.A4)

2013 Oct 28, The governors of
California, Oregon and Washington states along with the premier of
British Columbia agreed to coordinate greenhouse gas reduction
goals.
(SFC, 10/29/13, p.A1)

2014 Mar 19, In California
Mendocino County Sheriff’s Deputy Ricky Del Fiorentino was shot and
killed when he encountered Ricardo Anthony Chaney (32) on Highway 1
north of Fort Bragg. Chaney was later shot and killed by another
Fort Bragg police officer. Authorities believed that Chaney had shot
and killed George Bundy Wasson (79), a retired Univ. of Oregon
instructor and Coquille Tribe elder, earlier the same day in Eugene,
Or.
(SFC, 3/21/14, p.D2)(SFC, 3/24/14, p.C2)(SFC,
3/24/14, p.C2)

2014 Jun 10, In Oregon Jared
Michael Padgett (15), armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and
several magazines of ammunition, shot and killed a student at
Reynolds High School in Troutdale. He carried the weapons hidden in
a guitar case and also injured a teacher before killing himself in a
restroom following an exchange of gunfire with officers.
(SFC, 6/11/14, p.A6)(SFC, 6/12/14, p.A14)

2014 Aug 1, In Oregon a hotel
housekeeper discovered an injured 13-year-old girl and the body of
her 2-year-old sister at a coastal inn. Police were searching for
their mother, Jessica Smith (40) of Goldendale, Washington.
(AP, 8/1/14)

2014 Aug 8, Oracle Corp. sued
the state of Oregon in a breach of contract suit against Cover
Oregon, the state’s health insurance exchange. The state’s health
insurance website was never launched and disputed bills totaled $23
million. Gov. John Kitzhaber has called for the state to sue Oracle
and recover some of the $134 million already paid.
(SFC, 8/9/14, p.A8)

2014 Aug 17, In Oregon 2 people
were kiled after a disabled man jumped on his mother’s lap in a
motorized mobilized device hitting the controls and propelling both
of them into a gap between two light-rail train cars as the train
left the station in Gresham.
(SFC, 8/18/14, p.A4)

2014 Aug 21, In Oregon Blue
Kalmbach (16) was sentenced to 11 years in prison for carving a
swastika into another teen's forehead last February. Before carving
the swastika with a box-cutter style of knife, he and three others
shot the victim with a BB gun, forced him to eat cat feces and hit
with him a crow bar and cricket-type bat. Kalmbach was the last of
four teenagers to be sentenced in the case.
(AP, 8/22/14)

2014 Aug 22, Oregon filed a
$200m suit against Oracle Corp. and several executives over the
company’s role in creating the troubled website for the state’s
online health insurance exchange.
(SFC, 8/23/14, p.D2)

2014 Oct 1, On Oregon Mohamed
Mohamud (23) was sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to
detonate a bomb in Portland’s downtown square during the lighting of
a Christmas tree on Nov 26, 2010. The plot was actually part of an
FBI sting.
(SFC, 10/2/14, p.A5)

2014 Oct 6, Brittany Maynard
(29), a newlywed diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor, posted a video
about her decision to take control over how she dies. She
tentatively selected Nov 1 as her date of death in Oregon. The
former California teacher moved to Oregon after learning that
California was not among the five US states that allowed access to a
lethal drug for terminal illness. Montana, New Mexico, Vermont and
Washington states also allowed access to the lethal drug.
(SFC, 10/13/14, p.A1)(SFC, 11/3/14, p.A1)

2014 Nov 1, Brittany Maynard
(29), a SF Bay Area newlywed diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor,
died in Portland Oregon. She had moved to Oregon to access a lethal
drug for terminal illness and selected this day to end her life.
(SSFC, 11/2/14, p.A1)

2015 Feb 13, Oregon’s Gov. John
Kitzhaber (67), a former emergency room doctor, resigned an ethics
scandal amidst an investigation of the role that his fiancee, Cylbia
Hayes (47), played in his administration.
(SFC, 2/14/15, p.A15)

2015 Oct 1, In Oregon Chris
Harper Mercer (26), armed with multiple guns, walked into a morning
writing class at the Umpqua Community College in Roseburg and opened
fire. 9 people were killed and seven others wounded. Mercer killed
himself in a shootout with police.
(AP, 10/2/15)(SSFC, 10/4/15, p.A16)

2015 Oct 5, In Marin County,
Ca., Steve Carter (67), tantric massage therapist, was shot and
killed while hiking in the Loma Alta Open Space Preserve northwest
of Fairfax. On October 7 police in Portland, Oregon, arrested
Morrison Haze Lampley (23), Sean Michael Angold (24) and Lila Scott
Allgood (18) after they tracked the victim’s car using GPS
technology. The trio were later linked to the death of Canadian
backpacker Audrey Carey (23), whose body was found on Oct 3 in San
Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
(SFC, 10/8/15, p.A6)(SFC, 10/15/15, p.D2)

2015 Nov 3, It was reported
that Chipotle has closed down 43 of its restaurants in Oregon and
Washington states after at least 37 people were reported sickened in
an outbreak of E. coli. This was the third food-borne illness at the
chain this year.
(SFC, 11/3/15, p.D4)(SFC, 11/4/15, p.A4)

2016 Jan 2, In Oregon an armed
group of citizens, members of the Oath Keepers, seized control of a
federal building at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. Group
leader Ammon Bundy claimed ranchers, loggers and farmers should have
control of federal land. Ex-serviceman Elmer Stewart Rhodes, who
opposed the occupation, had founded Oath Keepers after working on
Ron Paul’s 2008 campaign for the Republican nomination.
(SFC, 1/6/16, p.A5,10)(Econ, 2/27/16, p.23)

2016 Jan 8, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention said seven employees of an Oregon zoo
contracted tuberculosis from three elephants in their care in 2013.
Human-to-elephant transmission was first identified in 1996 and
there have been a handful of cases in recent years in Tennessee and
elsewhere.
(Reuters, 1/8/16)

2016 Jan 15, Police arrested
Kenneth Medenbach (62), of Crescent, Ore., under suspicion of
operating a stolen Malheur Refuge van when he left the refuge for
groceries.
(SSFC, 1/17/16, p.A10)

2016 Jan 26, In Oregon Ammon
Bundy and eight others, who had occupied a wildlife refuge for the
past three weeks, were arrested following a traffic stop that
prompted gunfire leaving Robert “LaVoy" Finicum dead.
(SFC, 1/27/16, p.A6)(SFC, 3/9/16, p.A6)

2016 Jan 27, Federal and Oregon
state officials were restricting access to the state refuge being
occupied by an armed group after one of the occupiers was killed
during a traffic stop and eight more, including the group's leader
Ammon Bundy, were arrested.
(AP, 1/27/16)

2016 Jan 30, In Oregon four
people continued to occupy a wildlife refuge. Eleven others,
arrested last week, remained in custody.
(Boston Globe, 1/31/16, p.A6)

2016 Feb 3, Environmentalists
sued a branch of the US Department of Agriculture in a bid to block
federal agents from carrying out targeted killings of gray wolves in
Oregon.
(Reuters, 2/3/16)

2016 Feb 11, The US FBI
surrounded the last protesters holed up at a federal wildlife refuge
in Oregon amid reports they will surrender, suggesting the
weeks-long armed siege is approaching a climax.
(AFP, 2/11/16)

2016 Jun 3, In Oregon 16 of 96
tank cars of a Union Pacific train derailed near Mosier in the
Columbia River Gorge and an unknown amount of oil was leaked.
Mosier’s wastewater treatment plant and sewer system were left
inoperative. A fire in four of the cars was extinguished the next
day.
(SFC, 6/4/16, p.A5)(SFC, 6/6/16, p.A6)

2016 Nov 9, From New York to
Los Angeles thousands of people in around 10 cities rallied late
today against president-elect Donald Trump. Protesters burned a
giant orange-haired head of Trump in effigy, lit fires in the
streets and blocked traffic as rage over the billionaire's election
victory spilled onto the streets of Oakland, Ca., Chicago, Boston,
Philadelphia, Portland and Washington DC.
(AFP, 11/10/16)

2017 Mar 1, In Oregon a house
fire in the small town of Riddle left four children dead.
(SFC, 3/2/17, p.A5)

2017 Apr 7, In Oregon a small
plane crashed near Harrisburg as it approached the Eugene Airport
under high winds. Four people were killed.
(SSFC, 4/9/17, p.A6)

2017 May 26, In Portland,
Oregon, Ricky John Best (53) and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche were
killed and another was hurt in a stabbing after a man on a
light-rail train yelled racial slurs at two women, one of whom was
wearing a hijab. Police arrested a man who ran from the train.
(SFC, 5/27/17, p.A6)(SFC, 5/30/17, p.A5)

2017 Jul 3, Oregon enacted a
rule change allowing people who do not identify with their gender to
instead mark “X" on their driver’s licenses of state ID cards.
(SFC, 8/12/17, p.A6)

2017 Jun 4, In Oregon a
pro-Trump rally and counter-protest in Portland was marked by
multiple arrests and clashes.
(SFC, 6/4/17, p.A5)

2017 Jun 15, Oregon-based Nike
announced several changes to its business structure including
a cut of about 1,400 jobs and reduction of the number of
sneaker styles it offers by a quarter.
(AP, 6/15/17)

2017 Jul 26, It was reported
that US scientists have edited the genes of human embryos, a
controversial step toward someday helping babies avoid inherited
diseases. Officials at Oregon Health & Science University
confirmed that the work took place there and said results would be
published in a journal soon.
(AP, 7/27/17)

2017 Sep, Oregon and Washington
state authorities said an extensive poaching ring was responsible
for slaughtering more than 100 black bears, cougars, bobcats, deer
and elk dating back to 2015. Seven people were charged and
investigators planned to recommend charges against more people.
(SSFC, 9/10/17 p.A12)